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By Joanna DelBuono
Brooklyn Daily
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Standing O to Bridge Street Development Corp., for coming to the aid of fiscally distraught homeowners in Canarsie. The leader in foreclosure prevention counseling, long of Bedford-Stuyvesant, is spreading its protective wings to embrace dwellers of one- and two-family homes that suffered back-to-back losses from predatory lenders and the ravages of Hurricane Sandy.
Bridge Street will offer home ownership education and counseling, economic development, affordable housing, and civic engagements.
The community welcomed the group at last month’s kick-off at the Citibank on Ralph Avenue. Attendees included: Emilio Dorcely, Bridge Street president and C.E.O.; Edward Odom, chairman; and members Warren Hu, Ettice Womble, and Imelba Rodriguez. Also attending were: Roxanne Persaud president of the 69th Precinct Council; Alice Gilgeours from Visiting Nurse Service, N.Y.; Rabbi Avrohom Hecht, of the Jewish Community Council of Canarsie; David Louis from Canarsie Recovery Coalition; Joy Riley of Canarsie Informed; and Mercedes Narcisse, of the Avenue L Merchants Association.
“Canarsie residents, run, don’t walk to Bridge Street, if you are facing foreclosure,” says Standing O. “Help is at hand.”
Bridge Street Development Corporation [460 Nostrand Ave. at Jefferson Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, (718) 399–0146].
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